Re: fts: make find *much* faster on dirent.d_type-challenged FS

2009-02-19 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Karl Berry wrote: In compiling the binaries for TeX Live, where we try to use fairly old compilers and systems, the only platform which had problems with decl-after-stmt was v5 of the IBM C compiler for AIX 4.3. There are various reasons why the person who does those builds doesn't want to use g

Re: fts: make find *much* faster on dirent.d_type-challenged FS

2009-02-19 Thread Karl Berry
Have you built gcc on AIX 4.x? Personally? Not recently. I've done so in the past. The person who builds the AIX binaries for TL is Vladimir Volovich. As I recall, vvv told me that he did have gcc on AIX, but that the resulting binaries were both slower and bigger than the IBM C compiler r